Henry Edward ALBERTS, Sr.

ALBERTS, SMITH, ANKENEY, WEED, ARNOLD, VAN WORT

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 11/23/2010 at 11:15:27

September 11, 1863 -- October 26, 1943

H.E. ALBERTS LAID TO REST AT LAKEVIEW CEMETERY SATURDAY

Funeral services were conducted at the Donovan Funeral Home Saturday for H. E. Alberts, who died Tuesday, Oct. 26 at the local hospital at the age of 78 years. Rev. J. E. Feller conducted the service and burial was at Lakeview Cemetery.

Henry Edward Alberts was born near Elliotsburg, Penn. on Sept. 11, 1863 and passed away Oct. 26, 1943 at the age of 78. He was united in marriage to Mary Ann Smith of Sheffield, ILL. Their home was blessed with ten children, seven of whom are left to mourn his death. He was preceded in death by his wife, a daughter and two sons.

He came to Dickinson county in 1908 where he has resided until his death. He leaves four daughters, Mrs. Harry Ankeney of Waubun, Minn., Mrs. Dewey Kenneth Weed, Mrs. Wm. Arnold of Ventura, Calif., and Mrs. Van Wort of Los Angeles, Calif., Wm. Albert of Harris, Iowa and Russell and Floyd Albert of Ventura, Calif., also six grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

The Spirit Lake Beacon - Iowa
November 4, 1943

[resident of Dows, Wright County, Iowa from 1901 - 1908]